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PVT WELDON D. SCROGGINS


(courtesy of "CHS")

Grave marker application and headstone for Pvt Weldon D. Scroggins in the South Park Cemetery, Pearland (Brazoria county), Texas.

Weldon enlisted in the Army in Houston, TX on 23 April 1943.  Following basic training and jump school he was shipped to England.

On 6 April 1944 Pvt Weldon was transferred from Field Force Replacement Depot #8 to Company H, 508th PIR.

On July 6 Pvt Weldon was declared as MIA since 6 June when his company had parachuted into Normandy.  It was not until 13 April 1945 that his status was changed to KIA as of 6 June 1944..

On 2 March 1945, he was interred in Blosville Cemetery in Plot 2, Row Z, Grave 40 and his remains were ultimately repatriated to his home area.

Pvt Weldon was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and the Combat Infantryman Badge.